First: I did a quick search to find that the former mutual fund threads may be too old to ressurect, but feel free to enlighten me if I missed one.

Second: So I have been hearing about low cost mutual funds - about how they actually yield better results in the long run. I have been unable to find a concrete definition of what makes a particular fund "low cost."

Would this be referring to annual fees? Are people implying that if you are paying more than X dollars a year in fees, that it's a bad situation?

I have money in 2 mutual funds in a Roth IRA account, and was trying to figure out if my investments are low-cost or high-cost.

Thanks!

-ZiP!-

11/29/2005 12:14:09 AM

http://www.vanguard.com typically has the lowest fees year in and year out for their index funds.

maybe you can compare your funds costs to them. Also, http://www.morningstar.com will do an analysis of your holdings and tell you what the cost of holding it will be for 1, 5 and 10 years.

11/29/2005 5:57:37 AM